Heavy India rains destroy crops

Heavy unseasonal rains across many states in India have inflicted a telling blow on farmers with their standing crops destroyed. There can be nothing worse than unseasonal heavy rains for farmers during harvesting. Marathwada farmers were dealt a blow with the standing rabi crop damaged due to heavy rain and hailstorms over the past two days. Aurangabad district alone received 57.12mm rainfall in the 24 hours. The government had declared hundreds of villages hit on account of the poor rainfall during the 2014 monsoon season. Unable to cope with farm losses, nearly 100 farmers have committed suicide since January this year.